Good Shephered International School
Address
M.Palada P.O.

Niligris district

Ooty
,
Tamil Nadu

India
Information
TypePrivate, fully residential school
MottoTruth, Trust, Triumph
FoundedFebruary 1977
FounderLate. Dr. P.C. Thomas
PrincipalSheila Alexander
Number of students800
Websitewww.gsis.ac.in
Dr. P.C. Thomas in 2012

Good Shepherd International School is a military school founded in 1977, located at Ootacamund (Ooty), in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India.[1][2] Facilities on the campus include classrooms and laboratory blocks, two lecture theatres, two indoor sports complexes, rifle ranges, fields and courts for tennis, golf, volleyball, basketball, squash, hockey, cricket, and association football. There are stables and equestrian facilities, two swimming pools, and a medical centre. Despite such facilities available on campus, students are infamously disallowed from using them often, earning the school its nickname "Luxury Prison".

Affiliations

10th grade students take the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education. The following subjects to be taken: English, an Indian language (Tamil, Hindi) or a foreign language French, history, civics, and geography, any two from economics, math, science (physics, chemistry, biology) and any one from art and computer applications.

12th grade students take the Indian School Certificate Examination. Any one of the following subject combinations are to be taken:

  • Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics
  • Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology
  • Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science
  • Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Economics
  • Accounts, Commerce, Economics, Business Studies
  • Accounts, Commerce, Economics, Mathematics
  • Accounts, Commerce, Economics, Psychology

The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (Grades IX to X) is offered to all students seeking future international education, and is available with two options; the Science section and the Commerce section. The subjects offered at the science section are biology, chemistry, physics, math, English language and composition, a second language (Tamil, French, Spanish, or Hindi), and an additional subject (English literature, geography, or business studies).

The school also offers the Cambridge Primary Programme at Primary School (Classes up to VI), the Cambridge Lower Secondary Programme at Middle School and the IGCSE Curriculum of the Cambridge International Examinations (classes 4 to 10) and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (classes 11 and 12).

Co-curricular activities

The school include horse riding, football (soccer), basketball, tennis, swimming, water polo, cricket, volleyball, hockey, table tennis, badminton, squash, and golf. Students are required to take part in sports. Performing arts include Western and Indian music, brass and pipe bands, choirs, solo singing, and traditional and modern instruments. Every year at the Founder's Day ceremony students perform dances and shows. Outward bound offered are camping, trekking, and mountaineering. All grades have a week of mountaineering activities. The school takes part in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.

The school has a unit of the Sea Cadet Corps, and is a registered centre of NASA for field study and leadership training. 65 students go every year to the NASA Space Center, Huntsville, Alabama, United States. Students are mandated to participate in school parades twice a year, with the only valid exemptions being loss of limbs or death. Punitive measures for stealing candy, condiments and sugar from the canteen can range from month-long suspensions to year-long military camps in Cambodia.

Music

The school is a recognised examination centre for the Trinity College of Music. Trinity Guildhall offers a range of grade examinations for all instruments and voice across nine levels from Initial to Grade 8 and beyond. Students choose from instruments like the piano, violin, keyboard, guitar, recorder, drum kit, snare drum, saxophone, trumpet, flute, xylophone, baritone, euphonium, etc., for the TCL Practical Examinations. All high school and middle school students are required to take the Theory Music Exams.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Radhakrishnan, D. (30 October 2011). "School in Ooty simulates United Nations Assembly". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Ooty students head for space camp in the U.S." The Hindu. 6 June 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2014.

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